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Turn back the clocks to 2009. A small portion of the internet was abuzz with a new tool for avoiding the eyes of the government, any government. The long and meaningful legacy of cypherpunks, privacy wonks who have consistently done battle with anyone who wishes to control or...

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based altcoin payment processor CoinPayments announced on Sunday in a press release sent to CoinReport that it had secured more than $100,000 in investments from qualifying professional investors on the first day of its seed funding round. The...

If you’ve been paying attention to the Bitcoin scene over the last few months, you’ve probably heard about concepts called “side chains” or “tree chains,” and may even be given to understand that there’s some debate over which of them ought to be added to...

Monero, ticker XMR, is one of several altcoins attempting to overtake Darkcoin in the race to become the top anonymous coin. It’s joined in the ranks of the top 20 coins by market cap by cryptocurrencies like XCurrency, Blackcoin, and BitcoinDark – all of which have their...

XCurrency, ticker XC, is a coin that showed up around five months ago with some pretty startling claims about itself. Since then, the creators have gone on to make it into one of the top coins priding itself on anonymity, while also making a name for themselves by running code...

Many of the so-called “Altcoins” that have followed in the footsteps of Bitcoin have differentiated themselves through the use of shorter block times. Bitcoin, which has historically used a block time of ten minutes, self-regulates the network to ensure that, on average, a new...

There’s an old rule of journalism that says that any article title that contains a question can be answered with “no.” I’m sad to say that this article is no exception to that rule – the scams will never end. But they will become far less frequent, and the “real” altcoins...

Last article, we discussed Counterparty, an innovative layer that runs on top of the Bitcoin protocol, providing access to all sorts of useful functionality – creating assets, fundraising for projects, gambling, and so on. The shibes felt rather left out, apparently, and a...

Counterparty (ticker XCP) is an interesting addition to the Bitcoin protocol, that serves as “an innovative platform for peer-to-peer markets and financial instruments.” In other words, it can be used (similar to NXT) in order to issue assets in a controlled, verifiable, and...

Ahh, anonymous transactions. A refuge for criminals — and for those who would prefer prying eyes not see into their bank accounts. A tool with legitimate uses and illegitimate ones, much like many tools. Darkcoin is the premier anonymous coin, and it differs from the...